Christine Champ, Sep 02, 2010 If watching The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo made you fall in love with Goth heroine Lisbeth Salander, the Swedish sequel, The Girl Who Played With Fire (Flicken some lekte med elden) will deepen the relationship. It rounds up the usual suspects and key actors, including ...
Eric D. Snider, Sep 01, 2010 Welcome to Earth! Thank you for not killing us immediately. Ha ha, just a tiny joke there. We’ve made a lot of movies about what might happen if aliens came to visit us, and it usually doesn’t go well for us. Oh, you have seen ...
Eric D. Snider, Aug 31, 2010 The praise: Fritz Lang’s M is No. 33 on Empire magazine’s list of the greatest films not in English. Lang is considered one of cinema’s most important pioneers, and M is widely viewed as his ideal work. The context: Fritz Lang was one of Germany’s ...
Alright, we’ll make this fast because this is the worst week of new DVD releases in a very long time. Only Michael Caine as Harry Brown manages to be interesting. I still can’t fathom that people would pay money to see Marmaduke in theaters. Are families really that desperate for ...
C. Robert Cargill, Aug 30, 2010 Now that the summer has come and gone, it’s time to roll out the fall motion picture season. Some are gunning for early Oscar heat, others for your holiday dollars. Here’s the batch that we are most looking forward to. The AmericanI’ve got just five ...
Eric D. Snider, Aug 26, 2010 Readers of a certain age might recall a time when Vin Diesel was poised to become the next major action star. He had a deep voice, and it was usually hard to comprehend what he was saying, and those are traits that people like in ...
We were saddened to see Edgar Wright’s critically praised comic adaptation Scott Pilgrim vs. The World bomb at the box office this weekend. There are a few theories as to why. But it reminded me of the excellent posters for the action star Lucas Lee (played hilariously by Chris Evans), ...
Ammon Gilbert, Aug 25, 2010 With the summer motion picture season coming to a close and debacles like The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The Last Airbender, and Killers now behind us, it’s time to look ahead at the fall motion picture season. Which films are gonna be awesome and make a ton of ...
Eric D. Snider, Aug 24, 2010 When people speak about the great comedians of silent film, they will mention Charlie Chaplin (whether they have seen any of his movies or not), and then maybe Buster Keaton, and then maybe Harold Lloyd. The hardcore motion picture buffs will bring up Jacques Tati, ...
A strong week for new films on DVD. Both City Island and Ajami were warmly received by the users of Criticker, but the most love was saved for Australian thriller The Square and the documentary about one of television’s first funny-women, Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg. City Island – Average Tier 6.70Meet ...